Posted on 09/24/2017 9:14:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Andrew McCarthy devotes his weekly NRO column to the unlimited mandate and prosecutorial tactics of Robert Mueller. The column is “Mueller scorches the earth.” Reviewing the proceedings to date, McCarthy writes:
You are forgiven if you can recall only vaguely that supposition about Trump-campaign collusion in Russian espionage against the 2016 election was the actual explanation for Mueller’s appointment as special counsel. To the extent there was any explanation, that is. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee, did not comply with the regulations requiring a description of the crimes Trump’s Justice Department is too conflicted to investigate, purportedly necessitating a quasi-independent special counsel.
The way it’s supposed to work, the Justice Department learns of a crime, so it assigns a prosecutor. To the contrary, this Justice Department assigned a prosecutor — make that: Seventeen hyper-aggressive prosecutors — and unleashed them to hunt for whatever crime they could find.
If you sense that this cuts against the presumption of innocence, you’re onto something….
McCarthy seems to be approximately the only observer troubled by the improprieties on which the Mueller investigation is predicated and the tactics with which it has been conducted. It’s not entirely clear to me why.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Why is this worth pointing out? Because someday, maybe, we’ll get around to asking: What would have happened if Hillary Clinton’s very real email scandal — with its mountainous evidence of felony mishandling of classified information and destruction of government records — had been investigated with the no-holds-barred vigor Mueller and his band of Hillary donors are applying to the surmise of Trump collusion in Russian espionage?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451649/robert-mueller-special-counsel-investigation-manafort
Let this be a lesson learned. Special prosecutor appointments need to be limited by:
1) time - require a report to both the DOJ and Congress as to the progress of findings at some future time point.
2) money - establish a budget for the time period above. This will limit the hiring
3) scope - establish clearly what is in scope and require any criminal proceedings discovered outside of the scope to be referred to the DOJ for prosecution.
Don’t forget that Sessions has appointed Whitaker to be his chief of staff.
He has a record of publicly condemning Mueller’s tactics.
He could be Mueller’s nemesis.
“Let this be a lesson learned”
This lesson was well known. Rosenstein gave Muelller a blank check and no actual limits for a reason. Get Trump. Period.
I filed my complaint with the DOJ inpector general. here is a copy. feel free to use copy. send out, copy enhance, file your own complaint.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B98gBgsg4VB3YjB3c3Z2dFFqMEE
Trump should fire RosenKrantz for not following policy.
Then tell Weasel Mueller that he has 60 days to wrap it up.
Remember Chief Justice Roberts saying that he didn’t think the Supreme Court ought to decide on the acceptance of Obamacare (instead, it ought to be voters).
Analogously, sort of, the enormous disagreement among us on whether or not Trump was legitimately elected needs special handling. Mueller and his team of Clintonites needs extra wide latitude so that, when they find no Trump-side hanky panky, no one can claim that the investigation wasn’t properly done.
I’m willing to be patient.
I furthermore think investigations under way will prove that Clinton and her players are the corrupt ones.
What's the deal with that?
I am very impressed with the document you provided the link to.
Just my moniker for him.
OK I keep seeing that and wondered what it was about.
Ahh. Thanks
“Rosencrantz is simple-minded and is okay with taking things at face value and letting other people do the thinking”
Fits nicely.
It is not just special prosecutors that do this..they do it all the time...that’s how these attorney generals destroy there political opponents..
Read a few of Jerry Spence’s books the FBI and DOJ are for the most part corrupt...90 per cent never go to trail..
Mueller is definitely dirty.
thx it was a lot of work. borrowed some.
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